Web 2.0: Larry Lessig on Free Culture
Lessig is cool. His powerpoint slides are white-on-black, typewriter
font, one or two centered words a slide, and they look awesome,
emphasizing and complementing what he’s saying rather than just
mirroring it.
His talk is about remixing, he gives some cool and funny demos of music
and movies based on remixing other sources. Today (since 1978)
everything is copyrighted by default, and companies use copyright to
prevent people from saying things they don’t want them to. The need
for permission reduces adoption - if you needed permission before you
could take a picture of something, there would be far less photography.
